| Long-Neck Lousewort |
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| File size | 570776 |
| Original date | 7/23/13 3:14 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 3.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot A495 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Pedicularis cheilanthifolia Family: Orobanchaceae (Broomrape family)
Long-Neck Lousewort is a perennial herb, with usually
many, hairy, spreading stems, 5-30 cm tall. Flowers are pink in a lax
or dense very hairy cluster, with the flower-tube longer than the
sepal-cup. The upper lip arched with a blunt reflexed tip, often much
longer than the short 3-lobed lower lip. Sepal-cup is ribbed, densely
hairy, sepals blunt, toothed. Stem-leaves are in whorls of 3-6,
stalked, pinnately lobed, 1.2-2.5 cm; basal leaves long-stalked.
Long-Neck Lousewort is is found on alpine slopes, screes, meadows,
from Pakistan to C. Nepal, at altitudes of 3300-4500 m. Flowering:
July-August.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed at Hamta Pass, Himachal Pradesh. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,